HP Prime Advanced Graphing Calculator

Quick Summary

Specifications

Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard

Type: Graphing Calculator

Model: HP Prime

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Overview

The HP Prime advanced graphing calculator was released in September 2013 as a next generation calculator with cutting edge capabilities. It is primarily based on the HP-39gii graphing calculator, but includes a high-resolution color, touchscreen display, an advanced CAS system and unique and innovative control capabilities for teachers and educators. The calculator still provides a number of advanced mathematics users, and can be programmed in HP Prime Programing Language (HPPPL) as well as via custom apps.

How to Create a New Article

This is how to create a link from this page to a new article and how to create that article in a page of it's own.

Edit this page.

Create a local link from the appropriate section of this page, about “Article” to the page prime:Article, where Article is the name of the page (must be unique), using Link_Text as the text that the link will be displayed as (that the user can click on). To see the formatting of a local link, you can copy an existing link, such as the “indexing” link in the Programming Documentation section below. Save this page. The Link_Text will be displayed in red indicating that the page doesn't exist yet.

Click on the red link text. A blank page indicating that this link doesn't go anywhere yet is displayed.

Click on the pen icon on the right and it will Create the non-existent page and put you in the wiki editor, where you can create your article.

After you've created your page, you can save it by clicking on the button on the bottom.

Then, if you go back to the previous page, the Link_Text text is now displayed as green instead of red. If you click on it, it will go to your newly created page.

Programming Tutorials and Links. Prime Tutorials and useful programming articles. Note that the tutorials here are the main programming tutorials produced by Edward Shore that are duplicated on many HP Prime web sites.

HPPL Language Considerations. HPPL language considerations. Is in Spanish, but browser usually translates well. It's a 5 part article and has quite a bit not written elsewhere. Is well worth reading.

Undocumented and Overlooked Features. This is the MOHPC links thread, also linked to in the collection of links below, but here, of specific interest, is the Undocumented and Overlooked Features. Essential reading for advanced programming on the Prime.

Handbook. This is a very early version of the User Guide. It's less verbose than the latest version and might explain things slightly differently that might be advantageous if having difficulty understanding some subject. It's presented here for completion.

Miscellaneous Tips. Miscellaneous tips. The next link has tips that apply to CAS/Home modes, but all other tips should go here if possible. I intend to update this as I discover new useful tips that are not related to CAS/Home differences, and recommend that others do so too.

CAS vs HOME. There are several tips described in here that are fundamental to understanding the feel of CAS on the Prime. New users need to understand these so that they know how to present problems to the CAS system and interpret results correctly. In particular how CAS and Home work together is described in here.

Giac/Xcas Online. If you wish to test a CAS expression on a PC to see how to use the PRIME CAS correctly, then you can run XCAS in your web browser. This is what this link points to.

XCas Source Code. C source code for XCas. The HP Prime CAS is compiled directly from this source code and as new releases come out for XCas, the changes will be ported automatically to the next HP Prime firmware release.

Floating Point Information. This paper describes several theorems related to rounding error and floating point arithmetic. It introduces different floating point representations and deals with precision, etc., and ill conditioned equations (a function where a tiny difference in a value causes a large difference in the result).

Eddie Shore's HP Prime Articles. This is a link to a search of Eddie Shore's blog for the term HP Prime. There are multiple articles in a row. Click on Next Posts at the bottom of the page to get even more. There are several pages worth.

Firmware

This is non-HP programming to create independent firmware. Would include assembler, C compiler, Linux and other non-standard HP programming links. Many of these are in the preliminary or research phase.

Unusual Set of Links. This is a set of unusual links. Going down to subdirectories, there are screenshots as PNG image files with useful information.

HP Solve Online Magazine. This is HP's online magazine for calculators. There are several papers on the HP Prime. This is the last issue. Older issues can be found by looking at the lower left under archives.

HP Links. This is a collection of programs, documents and programs (including many games like space invaders, asteroids, etc.), for the HP Prime.

More HP Links. This is a collection of links for the prime not found elsewhere. You have to search down through the tree. The previous link is one buried in this site, but there are others if you look around.